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I used to use open office at home on ubuntu whilst having to use MS office at College. But it's compatibility with MS office's documents was very bad. I'd spend a lot of time re-designing, a presentation for example, then exporting it to PDF format and from there on out edit the documents when I was back at home. If I were to open it up in MS office at College after doing so in open office it would cause everything to be completely muddled again. Before exporting it into PDF format (leaving it in open office format) the lecturer would sometimes notify me of it's contents being all over the place.

I'd used Google documents to store my work on but never used it's editing document ability's. One day after another document was completely muddled I thought to try Google documents. It worked with them flawlessly. While MS office is the standard I'll have to continue to do so.

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I used to use open office at home on ubuntu whilst having to use MS office at College. But it's compatibility with MS office's documents was very bad. I'd spend a lot of time re-designing, a presentation for example, then exporting it to PDF format and from there on out edit the documents when I was back at home. If I were to open it up in MS office at College after doing so in open office it would cause everything to be completely muddled again. Before exporting it into PDF format (leaving it in open office format) the lecturer would sometimes notify me of it's contents being all over the place.

I'd used Google documents to store my work on but never used it's editing document ability's. One day after another document was completely muddled I thought to try Google documents. It worked with them flawlessly. While MS office is the standard I'll have to continue to do so.

Yeah, it seems like LibreOffice really makes my excel spreadsheets look bad. Not sure why it doesn't do well with formatting. Makes it hard to use as a daily driver at home when my work uses only MS Office. Still nice to have for personal use though.

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I used to use open office at home on ubuntu whilst having to use MS office at College. But it's compatibility with MS office's documents was very bad. I'd spend a lot of time re-designing, a presentation for example, then exporting it to PDF format and from there on out edit the documents when I was back at home. If I were to open it up in MS office at College after doing so in open office it would cause everything to be completely muddled again. Before exporting it into PDF format (leaving it in open office format) the lecturer would sometimes notify me of it's contents being all over the place.

I'd used Google documents to store my work on but never used it's editing document ability's. One day after another document was completely muddled I thought to try Google documents. It worked with them flawlessly. While MS office is the standard I'll have to continue to do so.

When Microsoft really a full specification of their formats, other companies will be fully able to provide compatibility with MS Office. You fully know that Microsoft deliberately insures to prevent competition that very interpolarity. MS Office is only standard by hook and by crook.

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Yeah, it seems like LibreOffice really makes my excel spreadsheets look bad. Not sure why it doesn't do well with formatting. Makes it hard to use as a daily driver at home when my work uses only MS Office. Still nice to have for personal use though.

Yeah, though improvments are made with every release - thanks to submitting bugs with example documents. If you can share an example document and show what looks wrong, it's very important the developers get it because otherwise they can't solve these problems.

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I can confirm better .docx support in LO 3.6, saved my ass today, and MS OOXML support will further improve with the next releases, because some big German and Swiss cities are now investing a huge amount of money to improve this right now.

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It's amazing that LO can interoperate with OOXML documents at all. Not even Office 2010 supports the real standard fully, since it can only read standards-compliant documents (not that any application actually generates them anyway). I think that Office 2013 is the first suite to actually provide write support for non-transitional OOXML documents.